Check This Out: The $500 Check That Helped Launch Genentech

Genentech cofounder Herb Boyer told his origin story at this week’s CED Life Sciences conference in Raleigh. He waxed nostalgic about carefree, football-playing days in Western Pennsylvania – as well as his role in the genesis of the multibillion dollar biotech industry.

“There’s been an explosion of knowledge in my lifetime,” the 78-year-old Boyer said.

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